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- p command, fdisk: 3.1.3. Creating Linux Partitions
- packages, installing with RPM: 7.3.1. Using RPM
- packages, Perl: 13.4.2. More Features
- packets: 15.1.1. TCP/IP Concepts
- packing files (see archiving files compression)
- paging (memory): 1.4.3. Kernel
- PAM (Pluggable Authentication Methods): 5.7.3. PAM and Other Authentication Methods
- panel (GNOME): 11.4.2.1. The panel
- panic messages (kernel): 5.2.1. Using a Boot Floppy
- PAP (Password Authentication Protocol): 15.2.1.8. PAP and CHAP
- parallel computing: 1.5.10. Other Applications
- parallel port support, enabling: 7.4.2. Building the Kernel
- parameters, lilo.config file: 5.2.2.1. The /etc/lilo.conf file
- partitions
- compressed, accessing: 6.1.1. Filesystem Types
- creating Linux partitions: 2.2.1. Installation Overview
- 3.1.3. Creating Linux Partitions
- detecting, troubleshooting: 3.3.2.2. Problems recognizing hard drive or controller
- naming: 3.1.2. Drives and Partitions Under Linux
- overview: 2.2.2. Repartitioning Concepts
- 2.2.2. Repartitioning Concepts
- requirements: 2.2.3. Linux Partition Requirements
- 2.2.3. Linux Partition Requirements
- resizing: 2.2.4. Repartitioning Your Drives
- swap partitions: 6.2. Managing Swap Space
- Windows compatibility: 12.2. Sharing Partitions
- partitions/filesystems
- Windows partitions (shares)
- mounting: 12.2. Sharing Partitions
- pas16= boot option: 3.1.1. Booting Linux
- Pascal language: 13.6. Other Languages
- passwd file: 5.7.1. The passwd File
- Password Authentication Protocol (PAP): 15.2.1.8. PAP and CHAP
- password field (group accounts): 5.7.4. The Group File
- password field (passwd file): 5.7.1. The passwd File
- passwords
- creating user accounts: 3.2.1. Creating a User Account
- setting: 4.2. Setting a Password
- shadow: 5.7.2. Shadow Passwords
- Windows shares: 12.2.1. Mounting Windows Shares
- pasting text: 11.3.1.2. Cutting and pasting selections
- 11.6.2. Emacs and Other Editors
- patch-level version numbers: 1.4.1. A Note on Linux Version Numbers
- patch program: 7.4.1.2. Applying patches
- 14.2.8. Patching Files
- patches: 7.4.1. Obtaining Kernel Sources
- applying: 7.4.1.2. Applying patches
- patches, kernel: 7.4.1. Obtaining Kernel Sources
- path, include: 13.1.7. More Fun with Libraries
- patterns
- rules for (make): 13.2.4. Suffix Rules and Pattern Rules
- search and replace (Emacs): 9.2.5. Searching and Replacing
- search and replace (vi): 9.1.10. Global Searching and Replacing
- PC cards. (see PCMCIA)
- p2c translator: 13.6. Other Languages
- PCI bus
- devices, support, enabling: 7.4.2. Building the Kernel
- kernel boot message: 5.3.1. Kernel Boot Messages
- PCMCIA, support for: 1.5.8. Laptop Support
- PDL (page description language): 8.4.3. Choosing Printer Software
- performance: 0.1. Why People Like Linux
- AlphaLinux installation: B.4.2. Performance and Library Tuning
- Java programs: 13.5.1. The Promise of Java, or Why You Might Want to Use Java
- printer optimization: 8.4.13. Printer Optimization
- permissions: 4.13.1. What Permissions Mean
- owners and groups: 4.13.2. Owners and Groups
- changing: 4.14. Changing the Owner, Group,and Permissions
- print services: 8.4.10.2. File, directory, and utility privileges
- troubleshooting: 8.4.14. Printer System Troubleshooting
- system administration and: 5.1. Maintaining the System
- system shutdown setting: 3.2.4. Shutting Down the System
- phony targets: 13.2.1. What make Does
- pipes: 4.9. Saving Your Output
- pl variable (printcap): 8.4.5.3. The rest of the printcap variables
- platform independence: 13.5.1. The Promise of Java, or Why You Might Want to Use Java
- Plex86: 1.5.9. Interfacing with Windows and MS-DOS
- plex86 project (Windows emulation software): 12.3. Running MS-DOS and Windows Applications on Linux
- Pluggable Authentication Methods (PAM): 5.7.3. PAM and Other Authentication Methods
- pointing devices and Alpha systems: B.1.6. Mice and Serial Ports
- port address: 15.1.1. TCP/IP Concepts
- port numbers, httpd: 16.1.2.1. httpd.conf
- portability: 1.4.2. A Bag of Features
- PostScript: 8.4.3. Choosing Printer Software
- KGhostview and: 11.3.3. KGhostview: Displaying PostScript
- nenscript filter: 8.4.8. The nenscript Filter
- POVRAY program: 9.4.3. POVRAY
- PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol): 15.1. Networking with TCP/IP
- 15.1.2. Hardware Requirements
- configuring DNS: 15.2.1.6. Configuring DNS
- modems and: 15.2. Dial-up PPP
- over ISDN: 15.3. PPP over ISDN
- configuring ISDN hardware: 15.3.1. Configuring Your ISDN Hardware
- synchronous PPP: 15.3.2. Setting Up Synchronous PPP
- troubleshooting: 15.3.3. And If It Does Not Work?
- troubleshooting configuration: 15.2.1.7. Troubleshooting PPP configuration
- pppd daemon: 15.2.1.1. Requirements
- launching: 15.2.1.5. Starting up pppd
- prefix keys, rebinding: 9.2.8. Tailoring Emacs
- prerequisites: 13.2. Makefiles
- previewing LaTeX documents: 9.3.2.2. Formatting and printing
- print command (gdb): 14.1.1. Tracing a Program
- 14.1.4. Changing and Examining Data
- print filters: 8.4.7. Print Filters
- print preview: 1.5.2. Text Processing and Word Processing
- print spool: 9.6. Printing
- print utilities: 8.4.4. Checking Print Utilities
- printcap file: 8.4. Managing Print Services
- 8.4.5. Setting Up the Printcap File
- 9.6. Printing
- troubleshooting printing: 8.4.14. Printer System Troubleshooting
- PRINTER environment variable: 9.6. Printing
- printer ports: 8.4. Managing Print Services
- printers
- documentation, obtaining: 8.4.2. Gathering Resources
- sharing: 1.5.7. Networking
- [printers] section (smb.conf file): 12.2.2.2. Configuring Samba
- printing: 9.6. Printing
- BSD elements: 8.4.10. BSD Print System Elements: Files, Directories, and Utilities
- CUPS: 8.4.15. CUPS
- doublesided: 8.4.4. Checking Print Utilities
- enscript utility: 9.6.2. nenscript and enscript
- fax devices: 8.4.4. Checking Print Utilities
- filters, magic: 8.4.9. Magic Filters: APSfilter and Alternatives
- Ghostscript configuration: 8.4.6. Configuring Ghostscript
- hardware: 8.4.1. Checking Printer Hardware
- from KGhostview: 11.3.3. KGhostview: Displaying PostScript
- LaTeX: 9.3.2.2. Formatting and printing
- lpc utility, implementing: 8.4.12. Controlling Printer Services with lpc
- lpd daemon, implementing: 8.4.11. Exercising the Printer Daemon
- managing: 8.4. Managing Print Services
- nenscript filter: 8.4.8. The nenscript Filter
- page length, specifying: 8.4.5.3. The rest of the printcap variables
- page width, specifying: 8.4.5.3. The rest of the printcap variables
- principles of operation: 9.6.1. How the Printing System Processes a Queued File
- printer names: 8.4.5.2. Printer names
- remotely: 8.4.5.3. The rest of the printcap variables
- software for: 8.4.3. Choosing Printer Software
- system maintenance: 8.4.13. Printer Optimization
- troubleshooting system: 8.4.14. Printer System Troubleshooting
- printing services (Windows): 12.2.2.3. Adding users
- proc directory: 4.16. Important Directories
- proc filesystem: 5.6. The /proc Filesystem
- processes: 4.18. Processes
- processor-instruction level debugging: 14.1.6.2. Instruction-level debugging
- processors
- building kernel and: 7.4.2. Building the Kernel
- kernel boot messages: 5.3.1. Kernel Boot Messages
- multiprocessor support: 1.4.2. A Bag of Features
- SMP, nosmp boot option: 3.1.1. Booting Linux
- proc/filesystems file: 6.1.1. Filesystem Types
- programming
- within Emacs: 9.2.7. Running Commands and Programming within Emacs
- suitability of Linux: 1.3. Who's Using Linux?
- programming languages: 1.5.4. Programming Languages and Utilities
- Ada: 13.6. Other Languages
- C, C++: 13.1. Programming with gcc
- 13.1.8. Using C++
- FORTRAN: 13.6. Other Languages
- Java: 13. Programming Languages
- AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit): 13.5.3. A Working Example of Java
- obtaining for Linux (JDK): 13.5.2. Getting Java for Linux
- LISP: 13.6. Other Languages
- Pascal: 13.6. Other Languages
- Python: 13.6. Other Languages
- Scheme: 13.6. Other Languages
- Tcl: 14.2.5. Interface Building Tools
- Tk: 14.2.5. Interface Building Tools
- web resources: A.3.3. Programming Languages and Tools
- project trees, CVS: 14.2.7. Revision Control Tools — CVS
- prompt: 4.1. Logging In
- root account: 5.1. Maintaining the System
- protected-mode processors (Intel), compatibility: 1.4.3. Kernel
- protocols, dial-up connection support: 1.5.7. Networking
- ps command: 4.18. Processes
- lpd process, killing: 8.4.11. Exercising the Printer Daemon
- pseudo-devices: 6.3. Device Files
- ptype command (gdb): 14.1.4. Changing and Examining Data
- published Linux resources: 1.8.2. Books and Other Published Works
- pw variable (printcap): 8.4.5.3. The rest of the printcap variables
- pwd command: 4.4.1. Directories
- px variable (printcap): 8.4.5.3. The rest of the printcap variables
- py variable (printcap): 8.4.5.3. The rest of the printcap variables
- Python language: 13.6. Other Languages
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